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OPINION: DART, Ukraine's Cloud-Launched Missile That Shorts Out Russian Power Grids
The image is almost surreal: a stratospheric balloon drifting silently at 11 to 18 kilometres altitude above Russia, carrying a missile that, at the…
OPINION: Russian naval drones run on smuggled Starlink — Ukraine sank three
Ukraine's naval forces recently sank three Russian surface drones in the Black Sea — an operation that, in military terms, appears modest but reveals…
OPINION: Thirty-five PAC-3 missiles, and the Ukrainian sky breathes a little easier
Some numbers don't weigh the same. Thirty-five — thirty-five PAC-3 missiles pooled by Germany and several European partners for Ukraine. On paper, it's modest.…
OPINION: The EU extends sanctions against Russia by one year for the first time
Since 2022, the European Union's economic sanctions against Russia had been renewed every six months. That pace demanded regular negotiations, opened windows for political…
OPINION: Russia's deficit explodes: Putin is financing his war on credit
Some numbers tell the truth better than any speech. Russia's budget deficit has exceeded $80 billion in 2026. Not according to hostile Western analysts.…
OPINION: The refinery war: Russian oil's Achilles' heel
A few days ago, I read a line in a dispatch and stopped cold: Ukrainian drones had traveled more than 1,300 kilometers to strike…
OPINION: Maritime quarantine: China's real blockade strategy
They call it a «maritime quarantine». It is the polite term, the diplomatic term, the term that allows China to apply suffocating pressure on…
OPINION: Zelensky reaches out, Putin spits: the diplomacy of contempt
Volodymyr Zelensky has said he wants peace. He has said it hundreds of times, since the start of the large-scale war in February 2022.…
OPINION: Four to five trillion rubles more — Moscow burns its future
Allow me to begin with a number that should shock more than it does in Western media: Russia will increase its military spending by…